The lioness who sowed terror was actually… a boar

by time news

2023-07-25 10:49:28

And if the lioness seen and filmed near Berlin (Germany) on the night of Wednesday to Thursday was not one? In any case, this is what tend to show analyzes carried out on the only hair of the mysterious animal having been found. The town of Kleinmachnow (Germany), southwest of the capital, raised on Monday the possibility that the sample came from a wild boar.

Local authorities said in a statement that the hair “has none of the known properties of cat hair” as it “possesses basic stiffness”, has “a frayed tip” and happens to be “dark, almost black, at the root”. The analyzes were carried out by experts from the laboratory of the Leibnitz Institute for Zoological and Animal Research. They will be prosecuted.

No certainties

If many elements push the city to favor the hypothesis that the animal is a wild boar, the specialists have not been able to say “absolutely sure[s] of this eventuality. A lioness alert had been launched in the south of Berlin after the video of the mammal had circulated and that the police had said they had also seen a beast in the streets.

Around 100 animal health professionals, hunters and law enforcement personnel as well as drones and helicopters were mobilized to find the animal. Residents were told not to leave their homes. The alert was lifted two days later when experts began to believe that the lioness was not one.

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